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Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

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Research Expertise

Canada’s academic and industry leaders need to do more than keep up with rapid advances in data analytics and AI—they need to drive the conversation and enable everyone to benefit from the technology.

FEAS research in this area uses these powerful tools to advance knowledge and drive impactful societal change. Data analytics extracts insights from vast datasets to inform decision-making, while AI—including machine learning and predictive modeling—is revolutionizing fields from healthcare and cybersecurity to aerospace and architecture.

Sample research areas include:

  • Big Data
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet of Things
  • Stochastic Systems
Javad Alirezaie
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseSignal and Image Processing; Biomedical Imaging, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Pattern Recognition
Aliaa Alnaggar
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Areas Of ExpertiseOperations Research, Optimization under Uncertainty, Supply Chain and Logistics, Transportation, Sharing Economy, and Healthcare Operations Management
Saman Hassanzadeh Amin
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseSupply Chain Management; Operations Management; Logistics; Operations Research; Optimization; Game Theory; Information Technology; Data Science; Decision Support Systems
Dimitri Androutsos
Associate Dean / Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs
Areas Of ExpertiseDigital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision, AR/VR, Stereoscopy
Marco A. Antoniades
Associate Professor / Director of the Microwaves and Antennas Lab
Areas Of ExpertiseAntenna and RF/Microwave Engineering; Reconfigurable Metamaterials, Metasurfaces, Electrically-Small Antennas, RF/Microwave Circuits and Devices, Implantable/Wearable Antennas
Ehsan Rezazadeh Azar
Assistant Professor
Ayşe Başar
Professor / Director of Data Science Lab / Program Director of Data Science Masters Program
Areas Of ExpertiseMachine Learning, Decision Making under uncertainty by using Bayesian Machine Learning Methods to analyze complex structures in Data to build recommender systems and predictive Models. Advancing ML Optimization and Learning, with a focus on Large Language Models (LLMs), Deep Reinforcement Learning, and ML Explainability.
Soosan Beheshti
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseSignal Processing, Statistical Learning Theory, Information Extraction, Data Denoising and Preprocessing, Hyperparameter Selection in Machine Learning, System Identification and Control
Habiba Bougherara
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseBiomaterials, Additive Manufacturing, Nanocomposites, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics, 3D/4D Printing
Mucahit Cevik
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseMachine Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Operations Research; Mathematical Programming; Healthcare; Transportation; Software Engineering
Michael A. Chapman
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseImage Processing, 3D Topographic and Built Environment Modelling, Deformation Measurment and Analysis, Mobile Mapping, Sensor Fusion for Precision Mapping
Robin Chhabra
Assistant Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseRobotics and Mechatronics, Soft Robotics, Multi-Robot Systems, Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Guidance Navigation and Control, Damage-Tolerant Systems, Geometric Mechanics, Space Exploration
Olivia Das
Associate Professor
Ramdhane Dhib
Professor
Thomas Duever
Professor
Seth Dworkin
Professor / Academic Lead, Postdoctoral Fellows (Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies)
Areas Of ExpertiseSustainable Energy, Applied Thermodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Ground Source Heat Pump Design, Combustion Emissions Mitigation, Sustainable Fuels
Said Easa
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseTransportation Engineering; Automated Vehicle Planning and Control; Road Safety; Transportation Human Factors; Geometric Design
Ahmed El-Rabbany
Professor
Faezeh Ensan
Assistant Professor / Director of NSERC CREATE Program on the Responsible Development of AI (RAI)
Areas Of ExpertiseInformation retrieval, Natural Language Text Processing, Biomedical Information Processing and Retrieval, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Reza Faieghi
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering / Director, Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory
Areas Of ExpertiseRobotics, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, Uncrewed Ground Vehicles, Motion Control, Motion Planning, State Estimation, Object Detection
Liping Fang
Professor
Bilal Farooq
Canada Research Chair in Disruptive Transportation Technologies and Services
Xavier Fernando
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseWireless and Optical (Visible Light) Communications, Internet of Things, Fiber Optics, Vehicular Networks, Aerial Terrestrial Networks, Machine Learning
Alan Fung
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseSustainable Building and Community Energy Systems; Renewable Energies; Building Integrated Energy Systems; Heat Pump and Solar Systems; HVAC Systems and Smart Control
Rania Hamza
Associate Professor / Associate Chair Undergraduate
Areas Of ExpertiseBiological Wastewater Treatment, Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern, Resource Recovery from Waste Streams, Nutrient Removal and Recovery, Biofilm Processes, Process Intensification, Climate Adaptation, Wastewater Systems Reliability and Resilience, GHG emissions from Wastewater, Energy Efficiency in Wastewater Treatment
Seyed M. Hashemi
Professor
Siyuan He
Professor
Miljana Horvat
Professor / Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Areas Of ExpertiseEnergy Efficient Building Design, High Performance Building Envelopes, Solar Energy and Architecture, Solar Neighbourhood Planning, AI Aided Solar Neighbourhood Design
Khandaker M. Anwar Hossain
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseSustainable Construction Materials; Nanomaterial-Geopolymer Modified Concrete Composites; Ultra-High Performance Concrete, Engineered Concrete; Self-Healing/Self-Sensing Materials, Low-Carbon Multifunctional concrete; Smart resilient structural systems for bridge/building infrastructure and rehabilitation; Numerical modelling
Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseRobotics and Automation, Optmechatronics, Medical Robotics, Continuum Robots, Visual Servoing, Image-Guided Navigation, Aerial Manipulation
Darko Joksimovic
Associate Professor / Department Chair
Areas Of ExpertiseUrban Water Systems Analyses, Green Infrastructure Monitoring and Modelling, Decision Support, Hydroinformatics
Rasha Kashef
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseArtificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, IoT, Business Intelligence, Smart Systems
April Khademi
Canada Research Chair in AI for Medical Imaging / Associate Professor in Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering.
Areas Of ExpertiseArtificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical Imaging, Radiology, Pathology, Neurology, Cancer, Healthcare, Biomedical System Design
Naimul Khan
Associate Professor / Associate Chair, Graduate Studies
Areas Of ExpertiseMultimedia, Medical Imaging, Machine Learning, Augmented/Virtual Reality
Gul N. Khan
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseComputer Engineering: Auto-Tuning Tools for Heterogeneous Systems, Embedded Systems, Hardware/Software Co-Design, Intelligent System, Network-on-Chip, System-on-Chip Design
Lev Kirischian
Associate Professor
Sri Krishnan
Dean / Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseAI for Mental Health, Biomedical Signal Analysis, Audio Signal Analysis, Time-frequency Theory
Krishna Kumar
Professor
Mohamed Lachemi
Professor, President and Vice-Chancellor
Songnian Li
Professor / Associate Chair, Graduate Studies (Civil Engineering)
Areas Of ExpertiseGeocollaboration and Group Decision Support, Big Geospatial Data Analytics, Geospatial Web and Web Services, Human Mobility, Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, Solar Energy Potential Mapping, Digital Twins
James Li
Professor
Ali Lohi
Professor
Kristiina Valter Mai
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseBiomedical Engineering, Sensors, Systems Design, Neurophysiology, Balance, Rehabilitation, Environmental Engineering, Sustainability, Language, Wearables
Hesham Marzouk
Professor
Jenn McArthur
Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director, Project Management in the Built Environment
Areas Of ExpertiseSmart & Sustainable Buildings, Cognitive Digital Twins, Smart and Ongoing Commissioning, Energy-Efficiency, Fault Detection & Diagnosis, Building Decarbonization, and Developing Tools to Inform Urban Decarbonization Policy
Mohamed Wahab Mohamed Ismail
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseReal Options, Operations Research, Risk Hedging, New Product Introduction, Supply Chain and Trade Credit Contracts
S. Madeh Piryonesi
Assistant Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseData analytics; Infrastructure asset management; Construction management; Climate resilient infrastructure; BIM; Pavement; Optimization
Sajad Saeedi
Associate Professor
Reza Samavi
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseTrustworthy Machine Learning, Information Security and Privacy, AI
Reza Sedaghat
Professor
Mohamad T. Shahab
Assistant Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseControl Theory, Robotics, Adaptive Control, Autonomy, Control & Optimization, Autonomous Systems
M.F. (Frankie) Stewart
Professor
Helen Stopps
Assistant Professor
Dafna Sussman
Associate Professor / Director, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program / Principal Investigator, Maternal-Fetal Imaging Lab
Areas Of ExpertiseMedical Imaging, Obstetric & Gynecologic Diagnostics, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, Pathology, Disease Detection/Prediction
Sharareh Taghipour
Associate Professor; CRC Chair in Physical Asset Management; Director, RRMR Lab
Areas Of ExpertiseOperations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematical Modeling and Optimization, Optimization under Uncertainty, Data-Driven Predictive and Prescriptive Modeling
Karthi Umapathy
Professor & Associate Chair, Dept. of ECBE
Areas Of ExpertiseBiomedical Signal and Image Analysis, Time-frequency Analysis, Digital Signal Processing, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Computational Modeling, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Feature Extraction and Pattern Classification, Medical Instrumentation, Health Analytics
Simant Upreti
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseArtificial Intelligence, Optimal Control and Optimization, Process Modeling and Simulation
Bala Venkatesh
Professor / Academic Director, Centre for Urban Energy
Areas Of ExpertisePower and energy systems analysis and optimization with applications to smart grids, microgrids, storage, renewables, smart loads, and electric vehicles.
Victor X.D. Yang
Professor
Arnold Yuan
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseInfrastructure Asset Management; Engineering Risk and Reliability; Public-Private Partnerships; Civil Systems Engineering
Kourosh Zareinia
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseMedical Robotics, Haptics, Telerobotics, Mechatronics
Saeed Zolfaghari
Professor